The Companions of Jehu
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Dumas Alexandre. The Companions of Jehu
AN INTRODUCTORY WORD TO THE READER
PROLOGUE. THE CITY OF AVIGNON
CHAPTER I. A TABLE D’HÔTE
CHAPTER II. AN ITALIAN PROVERB
CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISHMAN
CHAPTER IV. THE DUEL
CHAPTER V. ROLAND
CHAPTER VI. MORGAN
CHAPTER VII. THE CHARTREUSE OF SEILLON
CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE MONEY OF THE DIRECTORY WAS USED
CHAPTER IX. ROMEO AND JULIET
CHAPTER X. THE FAMILY OF ROLAND
CHAPTER XI. CHÂTEAU DES NOIRES-FONTAINES
CHAPTER XII. PROVINCIAL PLEASURES
CHAPTER XIII. THE WILD-BOAR
CHAPTER XIV. AN UNPLEASANT COMMISSION
CHAPTER XV. THE STRONG-MINDED MAN
CHAPTER XVI. THE GHOST
CHAPTER XVII. INVESTIGATIONS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XIX. THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE RUE DE LA VICTOIRE
CHAPTER XX. THE GUESTS OF GENERAL BONAPARTE
CHAPTER XXI. THE SCHEDULE OF THE DIRECTORY
CHAPTER XXII. THE OUTLINE OF A DECREE
CHAPTER XXIII. ALEA JACTA EST
CHAPTER XXIV. THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE
CHAPTER XXV. AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BALL OF THE VICTIMS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BEAR’S SKIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. FAMILY MATTERS
CHAPTER XXIX. THE GENEVA DILIGENCE
CHAPTER XXX. CITIZEN FOUCHÉ’S REPORT
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SON OF THE MILLER OF LEGUERNO
CHAPTER XXXII. WHITE AND BLUE
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAW OF RETALIATION
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DIPLOMACY OF GEORGES CADOUDAL
CHAPTER XXXV. A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXXVI. SCULPTURE AND PAINTING
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE AMBASSADOR
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE TWO SIGNALS
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE GROTTO OF CEYZERIAT
CHAPTER XL. A FALSE SCENT
CHAPTER XLI. THE HÔTEL DE LA POSTE
CHAPTER XLII. THE CHAMBÉRY MAIL-COACH
CHAPTER XLIII. LORD GRENVILLE’S REPLY
CHAPTER XLIV. CHANGE OF RESIDENCE
CHAPTER XLV. THE FOLLOWER OF TRAILS
CHAPTER XLVI. AN INSPIRATION
CHAPTER XLVII. A RECONNOISSANCE
CHAPTER XLVIII. IN WHICH MORGAN’S PRESENTIMENTS ARE VERIFIED
CHAPTER XLIX. ROLAND’S REVENGE
CHAPTER L. CADOUDAL AT THE TUILERIES
CHAPTER LI. THE ARMY OF THE RESERVES
CHAPTER LII. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER LIII. IN WHICH AMÉLIE KEEPS HER WORD
CHAPTER LIV. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER LV. INVULNERABLE
CHAPTER LVI. CONCLUSION
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We do not know if the prologue we are going to present to our readers’ eyes be very useful, nevertheless we cannot resist the desire to make of it, not the first chapter, but the preface of this book.
The more we advance in life, the more we advance in art, the more convinced we become that nothing is abrupt and isolated; that nature and society progress by evolution and not by chance, and that the event, flower joyous or sad, perfumed or fetid, beneficent or fatal, which unfolds itself to-day before our eyes, was sown in the past, and had its roots sometimes in days anterior to ours, even as it will bear its fruits in the future.
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We have said that a third, perhaps half of them, had not only taken no part in the murder, but had not even set foot in the church. How should they kill them? The killing must be placed upon the basis of reprisals. But the killing of these eighty people required a certain number of executioners.
A species of tribunal was improvised by Jourdan and held session in one of the law-courts. It had a clerk named Raphel; a president, half Italian, half French; an orator in the popular dialect named Barbe Savournin de la Roua, and three or four other poor devils, a baker, a pork butcher – their names are lost in the multitude of events.
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